I've watched some videos on the topic of backbone js. This is an example straight from the video. It is from 2012, so I'm thinking backbone rules/library have changed, but I can't figure out why this does not work at the moment. In the video, the person shows it running in the JS Fiddle, but I can't get it to work. (I've included the necessary libraries in JS Fiddle, i.e. underscore, backbone and jQuery)
var V = Backbone.View.extend({
el:'body',
render: function () {
var data = { lat: -27, lon: 153 };
this.$el.html(_.template('<%= lat %> <%= lon%>', data));
return this;
}
});
var v = new V();
v.render();
<script src="http://underscorejs.org/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://backbonejs.org/backbone-min.js"></script>